[desktop-discuss] Connect to OSX Desktop from Indiana / OpenSolaris

[Iban Nieto]

Thank you very much, Bob, this is very useful for me ;-)

Regards

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 10:42 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Iban Nieto wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to connect to Apple OSX desktop via VNC or someother 
> > remote desktop management client?
> >
> > I'm trying with vncviewer (SUNWvncviewer at 4.1.2,5.11-0.79) from pkg 
> > repositories with no luck (protocol error, version supported from 
> > OSX is newer than the vncviewer client).
> 
> Unfortunately, the VNC built into OS-X Leopard crashes (after drawing 
> one screen) when used with standard VNC clients.  The only VNC client 
> that I know of which works with it (according to other people) is 
> called "Chicken Of The VNC" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/) 
> and it is Mac only.  The OS-X VNC session initiation is non-conformant 
> with the VNC specification from the RealVNC folks.
> 
> I installed an alternative VNC server on OS-X called "Vine Server for 
> OS X" 
> (http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html) 
> which does interoperate with Unix VNC clients but is likely slower 
> than Apple's built in server.
> 
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
> bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
> 
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